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Wed Jan 18 20:09:00 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059895.html

On 1/18/06, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names.
> >
> > There has been some previous discussion about removing hex()/oct()
> from
> > builtins for Python 3.0, IIRC.  I sure don't think bin() belongs
> there.
>
> Perhaps introduce a single function, base(val, radix=10, prefix=''), as
> a universal base converter that could replace bin(), hex(), oct(), etc.
>
> That would give us fewer builtins and provide an inverse for all the
> int() conversions (i.e. arbitrary bases).  Also, it would allow an
> unprefixed output which is what I usually need.
>

+1.  Differs from Neal's format() function by not magically
determining the prefix from the radix which I like.

-Brett

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